20 Iconic Photos That Left Their Mark on History

1945: Joe Rosenthal snapped four US Marines raising the American flag atop Japan’s Mt. Suribachi after the battle for Iwo Jima on February 23, in what would become an iconic image of American military determination recreated in statues and icons in the following decades.

Only three of the men would make it back to the US.

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